Archaic To Classical: Before and after the Persian War 490-480 BCE

From Pattern to Naturalism

Kouros late 6th cent.

Stranford Apollo 490 Critian Boy after 480

Dramatic Moment vs. Fixed In Time

Strangford Apollo ca 490 BCE

“Critian Boy” ca 480 BCE

Temple of Aphia on Island of Aigina

Olympia

Aphia Temple (Island of Aigina) 490 BCE From Cockerell (1860) who called it the “Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius” (he traveled in 1811)

Aphia Temple 490 BCE

Aphia Temple

Hera Temple Olympia ca 590 BCE (above and below)

Zeus Temp Olympia 468-460 (right)

Parthenon Athens 447-432

Parthenon (Athens)

Aphia Temple West Pediment ca 490 BCE

Aphia Temple, East Pediment ca 480 BCE

Aphia Temple ca 490 BCE West Pediment

Aphia Temple ca. 480 BCE East Pediment

Aphia Temple West Pediment ca. 490 BCE (left)

Aphia Temple East Ped. ca 480 BCE

Works by the Berlin Painter 500-480 BCE

Berlin Painter, Hydria c 490 (New York) Achilles and Penthesileia

Cup by the Penthesileia Painter ca 460 BCE – Achilles slays the Amazon Queen, Penthesileia

Aphia Temple Athena ca 490 BCE

“Aspasia” – Roman Copy of Greek 5th cent. original in “severe style”

“Aspasia” Roman Copy of 5th cent. Greek original (below)

Delphic Charioteer 478-474 BCE

Olympia

Zeus Temple Olympia 470-456 BCE

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Knox Travelers Stand by a Fallen Capital by the Zeus Temple

Diagram showing the location of Sculpture on the Parthenon Olympia has only Pedimental Sculpture And Metopes (no frieze)

Olympia East Pediment (below)

Olympia West Pediement (right)

Olympia East Pediment Chariot Race – Pelops races Oinomaos for the hand of Hippodameia (Oinomaos’ Daughter)

Pelops and Hippodameia (above) Old Seer (right)

West Pediment: Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

Apollo

Lapiths and Centaurs W. Pediment

Apollo (W. Pediment)

Herakles cleans the Augean Stables, Athena “helps”

Zeus Temple (metope)

That’s It!

Early Classical 480-450 B.C.E. Ethos and Pathos

The same contrast between Mind and Action On the opposites of a vase by the Niobid Painter

Here Pollitt calls it a contrast between ethos (character) and pathos (experience)

Parallel to the contrast between mind and action is a contrast between pattern and motion – or, as they are found in a single image, “rhythmos” the form of motion

Myron’s Discus Thrower Copy of Grk original of ca 460

Herakles from Aphia Temple ca 480

Rhythmos also in the figure of god from Artemision 470-450

The Classical Moment 450-430 B.C.E.

Pythagoras’ Numbers And Polykleitos’ Canon “

East Frieze Seated Gods

West Frieze Animated Horsemen

North Frieze: Procession grows more settled as it moves east

South Frieze: Procession grows More settled as it moves east

Cult Statue

Polykleitos

Original Greek Bronze Figures

Achilles Painter 460-440 B.C.E.

Kleophon Painter